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Analytics

Data vs. gut instinct: Seahawks coach leans into analytics to support, not drive, in-game decisions

“You don’t have to do what the numbers say,” Mike Macdonald said, adding that variables such as how a game is going, the feel for your own team, and gut instinct can all cancel out data suggestions. Read More

Microsoft’s NFL tech goes beyond the tablet: What AI is doing for coaches, players, and scouts

Just as with business workflows, the tools are changing how teams operate on and off the field. One big benefit of AI, Microsoft says, is speed: getting the right information to the right person fast enough to shape the next play call or adjustment. Read More

Data be damned: Seahawks coach recounts ‘real-time’ call to ignore analytics model in close loss

Who needs analytics? Sometimes in football you have to trust your gut in real time, and Seattle Seahawks coach Mike… Read More

Will the Mariners make the playoffs? Seattle data geek runs all the numbers with new website

Armed with a lifetime of Mariners fandom and a career in data science, Adam Jacobson is crunching the numbers on his new site Grand Salami Time to see if Seattle’s season ends in triumph or heartbreak. Read More

Statsig lands $100M at $1.1B valuation, aiming to unify product development as AI upends industry

We have a new unicorn. Four years after it was founded by a former Facebook engineering leader, Statsig has raised… Read More

Industrial analytics startup Seeq lands $50M to continue its growth

Seattle industrial analytics startup Seeq announced on Tuesday that it has landed $50 million in new funding. The company has… Read More

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck emerges from stealth, reveals $47.5M in funding

MotherDuck is peeking its head above water. The Seattle startup lifted the hood Tuesday on its data analytics system based on… Read More

Amazon analytics service will use shopper data to give brands product insights in physical stores

Amazon has spent years building technology to reshape how shoppers use its physical retail stores. Now the company is introducing… Read More

Ex-Microsoft engineers land $3M to launch distributed computing platform Edge Delta

Edge Delta, a Seattle-based startup that’s building a distributed analytics platform, raised $3 million in seed funding from lead investors… Read More

How the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field

The Seattle Seahawks have the NFL’s second-best winning percentage since 2012. One of the secrets to that success may lie… Read More

First look: SAP unveils real-time stadium operations analytics tool, in use with San Francisco 49ers

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Technology isn’t just improving athletic performance or changing the way we watch sports. It’s also being… Read More

Ballmer and Stern on NBA in Seattle; Philadelphia Eagles embrace analytics; more sports tech news

TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: We caught up with two big names in the NBA world to get… Read More

Smartphone users

Report finds global app usage still rising, and users in the U.S. spend 135 minutes a day in them

There’s a reason that everyone you look at it is looking at a smartphone. According to the folks whose job… Read More

Here are the ‘missed opportunities’ soccer legend Landon Donovan sees with sports technology

LAS VEGAS — Major League Soccer clubs, like many other pro sports franchises, are using data analytics and technology more… Read More

Analytics startup CloudMoyo grows to 200 people a year after Icertis spin-off

In a computing landscape where the word “cloud” figures into most every conversation and company name, the name CloudMoyo stands… Read More

LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena: Analytics in soccer ‘doesn’t mean a whole lot’

Embed from Getty Images Bruce Arena isn’t the biggest believer in analytics. The Los Angeles Galaxy head coach bashed the… Read More

Tune does ‘Hamilton’: Watch this Seattle company’s epic Broadway tribute

Tune CEO Peter Hamilton was born to write and star in a parody of the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” Not only… Read More

Why this startup turned a former billiards hall into a gourmet company kitchen

Former patrons of Belltown Billiards would probably balk at the sight of dishes like “rack of lamb” and “miso cod”… Read More

NFL lineman and MIT math student John Urschel on football analytics and marrying a robot

It’s not so often that you interview a professional athlete and he or she starts talking about the Nash equilibrium,… Read More

Maana raises $26M from top oil and gas investors for big data analytics platform

Maana is raising a big round of funding to fuel growth of its big data search engine platform that helps Fortune 100… Read More

Analytics startup MetricStory raises $1.4M to help marketers make sense of internal data

Marketers can access more internal data than ever before thanks to high-powered software like Google Analytics. But having that information at your fingertips… Read More

Calling all analytics startups: Microsoft unveils next accelerator program focused on data science

Microsoft announced the third installment of its Microsoft Ventures Seattle Accelerator on Wednesday, this time focusing on data science and machine… Read More

Microsoft acquires Seattle-based VoloMetrix to bring deeper insights into worker productivity

Microsoft announced on Thursday it has acquired VoloMetrix, a Seattle startup that offers a new way for large corporations to… Read More

These wearable trackers help the Sounders dominate professional soccer in the U.S.

The Seattle Sounders FC has consistently been one of the most dominant MLS soccer squads in its six years of existence. While the team has… Read More

Mobile network analytics firm RootMetrics acquired by IHS

RootMetrics, a Seattle-area company that provides information about the performance of cellular networks, has agreed to an acquisition by IHS, a… Read More

Baseball analytics: Mystery MLB team uses a Cray supercomputer to help win more games

Out of the 28 Major League Baseball teams competing today on “Opening Day,” there are a handful of squads using data and analytics to… Read More

Microsoft’s Oscar win: Prediction model nails 20 out of 24 awards

It was a big night for Hollywood, and also for Microsoft. A prediction model developed by David Rothschild, an economist… Read More

Location analytics startup Placed raises $10M to track your whereabouts

Smartphones today certainly can do more than just make a call or send a text — they also double as personal… Read More

Simply Measured

Social media analytics startup Simply Measured raises $20M, wants to be Seattle’s next tech titan

Simply Measured is simply on fire. Less than a year after the company took home GeekWire’s 2013 Startup of the Year… Read More

Free analytics: Twitter now lets anyone track their tweet performance

Twitter today opened the doors to its robust tool that lets anyone from big brands to basement bloggers monitor tweet performance… Read More

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